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• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches

  

  United States since the election last month, with many students sharing ... , President Reif joined hundreds of other university Presidents in signing an ... states: MIT is committed to making every effort to ensure, within the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  perspiration. I am probably not made for temperatures higher than eighty degrees ... ), which is a weekly drawing class offered through the MIT Student Art ... talking about return offers, and it isn't that I don't want a return offer

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  moral: there is more to MIT than earning your degree. Without further ado ... thing. They are wonderful people. The BU (Boston University) Astronomy ... going to university in the Cambridge/Boston area: how many other awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester ... supervisors, all from different universities. I actually applied to this program ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in the world ... start on your degree. (For the vast majority, that’s not the case, and ... , and I never gave a passing thought to university admissions as a high

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own ... , motor function, pain, placebo effects and emotional states. Hawkins ... domain and state space techniques. Control law design using Nyquist

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  me, had crossed the ocean to attend university in the States - but they ... bloggers" event, Cam T. offered to drive me to Ikea when it emerged that all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  M.150 is offered first half of term; 21M.151 is offered second half of ... the United States, from the Civil War to the present. Uses secondary ... to my degree Voting Considerations Before you vote Here is a sample

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  Environmental Engineering degree), 1-C (Civil Engineering), and 1-E (Environmental ... Mechanical Engineering was pretty easy. I thought that an undergraduate degree ... -A degree program instead of taking the traditional full Course 2 route

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  Yeah, you read that right. Let me tell you about Stanford. Stanford…is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious. The buildings are built out of tasteful…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  song Yakko's Universe from Animaniacs, and Pokémon for nostalgia) After

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  ; versatile and diverse, they offer a quick yet intimate glimpse into a ... me up spot, Phin offers a relaxed study space with a menu combining ... minute walk from campus Gypsy is a cozy Bohemian cafe offering a variety

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  universe that are not directly expressed in the observable properties of the universe," said Merritt Boyd Meet Merritt Boyd, the smartest student at North ... universe. I've always liked to take the telescope out at night and look at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  logic for our calculator would be a finite state machine (FSM)! WAIT. What’s a Finite State Machine (FSM)? NOTE: If you’re familiar with FSMs, you ... of states, state transitions, and inputs. FSMs are widely used in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  reported that "few, if any institutions, in the United States have a higher ... students of 1885-1895 and the MIT students of today. By 1895, 38 States, 1 ... ; consequently all offers of work which our fellow-students have kindly promised us

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s Pi Day, Pi Day the infinite is alive with the buzz of drones, and the 2020s bake pies

  

  ), admitted by two (both local state schools), and waitlisted at one. I got off ... transferring to one of the state schools that had admitted me the first time ... twice (once to a law school, whose offer I declined, and once to CMS/W at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  about the H-word, Harvard University. I’ve found myself going to Harvard ... !) with several Harvard University students this fall semester, learning a ... pretty large number of local and non-local universities.) Say goodbye to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  between the Oregon State University and the University of Colorado ... a state similar to stem cells, prefatory cells that can develop into ... well. Three summers ago, biologists from the University of the Andes in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  schools offer more limited coursework, or the students are not tracked in ... university, or just got into MIT for grad school, or did whatever it is that ... of these well funded research universities. You have the GI Bill, you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  , Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems ... to terraform mars, and lab-grown meat, synthetic biology offers new ... that offers recent alumni a six-month-runway of funding and advising post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015